Re: Internet piracy spreads from music to books
- From: Charles Hall <chall@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Internet piracy spreads from music to books
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:21:40 -0400 (EDT)
Don't you also find it odd that it's going to take them a year to put out
200 books? Are they having to scan in the text too?
> > Thanks for the pointer. The last paragraph is amazing:
> > The e-book industry is still small with traditional publishers
> > experimenting on ways to make money. Penguin, the consumer publisher, is
> > making its classic titles such as Jane Austen's Emma available online from
> > next month for 2.50 [UK pounds] a copy. By the end of the year, it hopes
> > to have 200 e-books."
> >
> > Richard Seltzer, seltzer@[redacted] www.samizdat.com